Chelsea boss Thomas Tuchel issued an update on the injury front for first-team star trio Romelu Lukaku, Timo Werner and Mateo Kovacic ahead of the weekend outing at the King Power Stadium.
The Blues make the trip to the East Midlands come Saturday to square up against Leicester City on the back of an international break which came as a respite to the growing recovery table list for Thomas Tuchel.
Tuchel sounded out mixed news on that front in his pre-match press conference with the German confirming that Kovacic and Lukaku were set to sit out the forthcoming game with the former in line for an extended spell on the sidelines.
‘I can tell you Mateo and Romelu are out for the game in Leicester. Romelu is very close to team training, hopefully he will join the squad on Sunday. Let’s see how this works out. He is pushing hard and trying to come back as soon as possible. We will try on Sunday.
‘Mateo will take more days until he is ready to join team training. He will miss some more matches.
Timo Werner, however, is backed to be in the mix to feature against Leicester with the former Leipzig man making his return to full training for Chelsea.
Tuchel confirmed that Werner was in contention to make the matchday squad over the weekend with his recovery set for further assessment.
‘Timo is in team training since yesterday.’
‘Let’s see. We have another training. Then we will decide if it makes sense if he’s maybe in the squad or on the bench. We can only decide after his second training later.’
